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I am a sea type of guy. I do snowboarding also. But back on the beach now, it is lovely as long as you don't go in the crowded areas. As a raised on the beach kid I fucking love this place. I speak about the Navodari area. It used to be a small town, the industrial type having an oil refinery at 10 km away. Everyone worked on this plant. Nowadays everyone is complaining about the Romanian seaside: It's expensive, it lacks experiences, it lacks modern activities and many many more.  I do not complain about anything, I used to live here for 30 years and every year it's the same story. And every year, even so, being expensive and with all the bad things it's fully loaded with tourists, Romanian ones and foreigners. It will become a weekend attraction for the majority of tourists, but please stop complaining!  You are here and you come back often. Especially when you spend your savings for 4 days in Greece or Bulgaria and then you squeeze at least one weekend per month on t

How can I start this post without criticising and almost yelling? Now that I have said that I kind of spoiled the entire post...but there I go writing anyway. When you get hired by almost any company you receive a salary, a mobile phone, a laptop and a company car. This is ok when you are in the sales/operational department or any other office in which you have to travel often, during one working day.  But WHY??!! do you need a company car when you are just using it to come and leave the office for home? Just to let others see that you have a car and do not need to use public transport anymore? From going to the office by subway to driving a big sedan every day, this is a big win for some of you. This is so wrong and that`s why all companies rely on this tool just to make you a prisoner. Prisoner of a way better-looking car that you already own. Suddenly you feel the urge to drive a lot more, after office hours. Just add one more car into this day-to-day traffic chaos in town and into

When you start a new job, everyone in that company is telling you how wonderful things will be now, that you are here. How did you come to solve all the problems that are and aren`t in your job description ☺ You are the baby Jesus that will save humanity…but wait, didn`t Jesus sacrifice itself for humanity first? Yep, we all know the story and this is how the cookie crumbles. The first weeks should be ok, in the 2nd month you have to put up a common-sense shield just to protect yourself from the task-throwing contest in which you are the main target. “Please, can you help with this little favour…it will only take 10 minutes”, and this is just the beginning. You are allowed to say “Sorry, I already have something to do at this moment and I have to deliver by the end of the day. Can I help you after?” and it can be a game-changer in your brand new role. You are polite and get to do what you were hired to do. Being polite is the key to your well-balanced life. Some people go to the office

The Office, that one place where we used  to go every morning 2 years back in time.  I know, you are thinking Oh, crap, just another click bait title :) But, in fact this is not something like this at all, just because it tells a real story.  I just got back to an old habit we all had, the morning routine of going to the office. I have now 2 weeks since this process started and I just want to go back home and get shit done. The Office is a whole floor in one big shiny building. For me is the 10th floor, an open space with a lot of people who each has some strange habits that I have to face each day. I wear a 😷 in the office, just an extra safety measure, not having Covid at all by this article is being written. Old team mates, new faces, new noises, new smells, new names to remember, new rules for every day life until 17:30 Romanian time.  If I get trough this first month without covid I am the certified survivor type. The Office is nice as a tv show, it's funny and en

I began another ordinary Tuesday waking up, turning on my workstation, washing my face, taking a dump, washing my hands. It was 09:00 AM(Romanian time). It was 09:30 when I decided to put on some music in the background, which I don`t do very often. Youtube was at my disposal and I have chosen a first track, from DJ NASA . It has nothing to do with NASA, but it has to do with one of my favourite hip hop Romanian bands - CTC. DJ NASA it is, obviously the DJ in the band, the man in the shadow sort of speak, the magician with the beats, with producing the hits. They work as a team but he is that guy that sits there, does the beats, scratches and cuts in all the concerts, video clips to any gig that CTC makes happen. Until now you just read some very useful information about DJ NASA and his work. Actually I kind of put him on some upper level that you might think, but you know what....you are wrong if you think otherwise until you have heard some of his music. Power to DJ NASA!  this is

Can you handle the truth? I think you can not handle the truth :))) Your honour, I stand here, in front of you to declare that has been committed a financial crime:)). Yes, there was committed, two years ago, after I have sold a car and the new owner decided not to register as the new owner. So, in December 2020, I got mail, proper mail - letter with a stamp brought by the postman which is a woman. It is from the National Company of Road Infrastructure - CNAIR. It seems that someone drove my ex-car without paying the road tax. I have heard about such cases and I sent the proof that I have sold the car long time ago the crime was committed. After a while I got new proper mail from the county court of Giurgiu in which I am invited to trial against CNAIR, just to tell the story and get it over with.  So, it is 4th of April and I stand here, on a small bench waiting for my turn to speak to miss judge. In front of me I have heard some incredible stories, I have seen direct confr

Hello readers! I will not apologize for the time out I took from writing :) I recently started being an UBER driver in Bucharest. This occupation gives me ten's of reasons to write again. The headline it is not a click bait. True story, beside Uber drivers that transform into classic taxi drivers - that will be another post - in traffic, nowadays you can see food delivery guys on bikes. Totally normal, nothing to criticise. I am a bike geek, used to be actually... These m#_#&# f£&#&#er biker wannabe boys that deliver food around town improvised small engines for their bicycles...yep. There are a lot of cars in traffic that polute the atmosphere, and you spot a little cloud of blue sky coloured smoke from a small engine fitted on a regular bicycle. And the only safety gear that they have is that big bag on their shoulders which they carry the food. No helmet, no knee safety, nothing.  I call it the money hunger games when I see them pa

Ok, I was watching tv two days ago, late in the evening. On one of the various Romanian news channels, I hear about two deaths that really got me thinking about our history. I never thought about something like this before. The first news was that a person died, his name was General Constantin Lucescu and guess what he did for a living in the past.....he was a military attorney. Nothing special about this until I find out that he has defended our last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, at their last judgement in 1989 on Christmas day. Bam! That was a shocker, being 80 now, I imagined what if we were still contemporary with Nicolae Ceausescu?! Damn, what could have been like nowadays..... Anyway, Constantin Lucescu died from cancer at the age of 80, rest in peace now. At one of his interviews, General Lucescu mentioned out loud that there were no papers against the Ceausescu family and that he felt immediately that it was really a political execution that had t

I have a #dogdaughter, she is adopted from Kola-Kariola Shelter in Bucharest. It wasn`t the smoothest ride in the process of adoption, but it was all my fault. The guys at Kola-Kariola and my girlfriend had the best behaviour in all the process. Nothing but the best for them. This adoption took place 2 and a half years ago, right when we moved into our new home  - click on the link to read about buying or having to rent a place - and I was not really into having a dog. But this is not what I am writing this post. The procedure was very simple, go see the future pet, take it to the vet - that is paid by the shelter - sign the adoption contract and go home and have a very new happy life. At the veterinary, we listened to some ground rules for the pet to be happy, we took the identity card and went straight home. That`s it! this is Odri after we took her in In the last week, we tried to adopt a cat. Knowing the basic procedure we talked to a couple of people that had little kitten

Even if the voting started around the world I am not going to write to you again about the Romanian Presidential Elections, NO. I read a couple of very interesting things about presidential elections in our history...world history. I will start with the US because this is the only place in this world where a man like Trump gets to be President :) :) and another candidate got to run against a dead candidate. It happened in 1872 when presidents Grant opponent died during the election process. I wonder if Trump ran against a dead opponent, what would the American people do?! :) Number two on this list is taking us back into ancient Sparta, where the government assembly would vote by shouting. So, the side that shouted the loudest would win the point. What Aristotle called the " childish " method, we are using these days to vote at a singing contest in some rural part of one country :) Sorry Aristotle! Number three takes us in Texas where if you are a student and go voting wi

I was on Saturday at one car show event - I won`t say the brand because I will do another post on that subject. This event took place at the Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum in Bucharest. Very nice museum, under renovation at this moment with a lot of pieces covered. But the cars were not and one of them just caught my eye. I did not know about its existence and when I saw the plate I was wow... the first aerodynamic car EVER built. I was thinking in that second that Romania has given a lot of pioneers in its history - I will leave a link below with all the first things that Romanian citizens gave to the world!! This is the link to one Wikipedia page with a huge list of all Romanians that did something great for the world for the first time!!! So, back to PERSU, this is the name of the car, after its creator Aurel Persu. At the beginnings of the 1920s, the car was starting to take shape. Everyone considered this automotive industry as a key industry and one industry for the fu

Hey, there fellow Romanian citizen!!!!!!!! If you live abroad you have to go out and VOTE for whoever you want. It is crucial that you and your family or friends vote! If you are reading this, I will help you with a full list of voting polls around the world. I chose some regions in which a lot of Romanians live and vote for their country - hopefully :) Let us begin with one interactive map I found : https://www.registrulelectoral.ro/ As a list that can be searched within  - bellow: For the US: 770 SUA Cleveland, Ohio Altele 1367 W 65th Street, Cleveland, OH 44102 771 SUA Norfolk, Virginia Altele 3126 Racine Ave., Norfolk, VA 23509 772 SUA Nashville, Tennessee Altele 4112 Union Street Old Hickory, TN 37138 773 SUA Chicago 1 Consulat General 737 N Michigan Avenue Suite 2300, Chicago, IL 60611 774 SUA Chicago 2 Altele 5825 N Mozart Street, Chicago, IL 60659 775 SUA Chicago 3 Altele 3938 W. Irving Park Road., Chicago IL 60618 776 SUA Niles Altele 7280 N Caldwell Avenue